The mounds are rarely more than a six-foot radius from each other. Gophers also leave dead plants behind, either because they've toppled them in devouring their roots or pulled them into their ...

However, after isolating 12 tunnel sections from gopher activity for up to 44 days each, roots from other surface plants such as sorrel (Rumex hastulatum) and common beggarticks (Bidens alba) filled ...

Before the gopher drop-off, only about a dozen plants were reported to have emerged from the pumice slabs that Mount St. Helens eruption had turned the land into. But six years after the gophers ...